Famous People's Opinion on Music (Quotes)

Vision · Number of posts: 108 Registration date: 2007-05-02

Inspired by Tizzy Lizzy! That quote from Napoleon on the cover of Cypher has SERIOUSLY impacted me. It essentially cosigns what Jaguar said in Writer Blocks. Made me research other famous people's opinions on music.

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

“Without music, life would be an error.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche

“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. ... I get most joy in life out of music.”
- Albert Einstein quotes

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
~Leopold Stokowski

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
~Ludwig van Beethoven

Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music.
~Ezra Pound

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
- Jimi Hendrix

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
- Victor Hugo

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
- Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
- Plato

A_Str8 · Number of posts: 865 Localisation: Philadelphia Registration date: 2006-12-29

Nice quotes. I especially like the ones from Napolean and Stokowski

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Tizzy Lizz^ · Number of posts: 2317 Localisation: Illadelph Registration date: 2007-01-03

Napoleon is a Beast

alyson · Number of posts: 1143 Registration date: 2007-01-04

my favorite was Stokowski's. I forwarded these to a friend at work (surrounded by musicians) and he loved them. thanks for sharing.

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Tizzy Lizz^ · Number of posts: 2317 Localisation: Illadelph Registration date: 2007-01-03

Vision wrote:

“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. ... I get most joy in life out of music.”
- Albert Einstein quotes

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
~Leopold Stokowski

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
- Ludwig van Beethoven

Also the article that you saw the quote in was about music and the brain...and all the research surrounding that. Its interesting that Einstein would have chosen music.

It is a powerful thing. Once this guy who plays the dijidor (spellign may be wrong) played some nature sounds...and you could hear the melody in rain drops, thunder, birds, and wind...

"Silence is a song" Lizz Wright

A_Str8 · Number of posts: 865 Localisation: Philadelphia Registration date: 2006-12-29

Tizzy Lizz^ wrote:

Its interesting that Einstein would have chosen music.

We always speak of Einstein as a great scientist, but he was really an all around brilliant guy with a lot to say on a lot of subjects. Years and years ago, I took a class where I was exposed to some of his non-scientific writings. Reading that stuff had a huge influence on the way I see the world.

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